did as you said, no duplicates
deleted them anyway restarted still does
not work

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Cryptic1Commented: 2000-01-08

Above solutions usually work. Other things to try:
Go into BIOS setup and set the drives to "AUTO." It could be that your board bios is not picking them up and therefore windows cannot see them.

Also, verify that the master-slave jumpers are set correctly on the drives. CDROMs have worked most reliably for me in the slave position, however, with two CDROMS, a master-slave arrangement also works most of the time. Make sure that they are wired to the second IDE connection on your motherboard, rather than the first. As you said, this is just a reinstall, so all the hardware connections should be correct. However, I have seen incorrect installations work in the past, and not work later on reinstalls. Its better to cover all the bases. Isolate and eliminate any problems that could exist on both the software and hardware levels.